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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the center, a source from which all truth flows?
(a) The void
(b) World navel
(c) The blackness
(d) The universe

2. What kind of myth is the story of the man who dreamed of killing his father and taking care of his mother?
(a) Unrealistic
(b) Disturbed
(c) Narcissius
(d) Oedipal

3. What does the Hero have to conquer in order to gain knowledge?
(a) Evil
(b) His faith
(c) His family
(d) Dragons

4. Who is the half human/half bull child of an enchanted queen?
(a) Roman peasant
(b) Babylonian prince
(c) Cretan minotaur
(d) Greek slave

5. What might the Hero be known as?
(a) The weak child
(b) The answer to the world's problems
(c) The ultimate archetype
(d) The classic protagonist

Short Answer Questions

1. What joins at this central area as described in #28?

2. Who is the main archetypal character that Campbell reveals as being at the center of myths and stories?

3. All things, moral and ________, beautiful and ________ emerge from this central area.

4. What does Campbell say are used to signify and to assist in the breaking of the attachment to one's parent?

5. What is a narrative form anchored in the pain and fear of that ultimate truth of death?

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